By Louise
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLyrAaHmdvo
Available until: 5pm, 16th August 2020
This is a production from 2005, about six months before I
was born. I obviously don’t remember when it was new but we have it on DVD and
even before I watched it for the first time, I knew about the production and
some of the circumstances around it. I think it’s clear right from the start
how special this performance is. It’s a long opera, at just under four hours
(without interval), but the music is so beautiful, the plot is so exciting and
the singers make the characters so interesting, even when you don’t like them, it
seemed a lot shorter. Even though I knew the opera, it was easy to get caught
up in the story and I wanted to see and hear what happened next.
